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Procreate Illustration: Zero to Hero
Beginner 15 hours English Course Certificate
SkillsProcreateDigital illustrationiPad artDigital paintingCharacter designBrushes
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Our take
From a blank canvas to finished illustrations, this project-based Udemy course teaches digital art in Procreate on iPad.
It covers the craft from scratch — brushes, layers, colour, character design and exporting — which makes it a friendly way in if you're starting out. Two practical notes: you need an iPad, and Procreate is a separate one-off App Store purchase on top of the course. There's little here if you already use it, but as a beginner's on-ramp it's well judged (as of 2026).
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About this course
This course covers Procreate from basics through professional illustration: navigating the canvas, working with layers and blending modes, customizing brushes, sketching and inking with Apple Pencil, applying color theory in practice, and finishing illustrations for print and on-screen use.
Instructor
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Rich Armstrong
Udemy instructor
140K+ learners5 courses4.7 instructor rating
Taught by professional digital illustrators on Udemy who use Procreate as their primary production tool for commercial and editorial illustration.
Frequently asked questions
Yes — this is essential. Procreate runs only on the iPad (there is an iPhone version, Procreate Pocket, but the full app and this course are built for iPad), so there is no way to follow along on a Windows PC, Mac, or Android device. An Apple Pencil is also strongly recommended, since the course is about drawing and illustration, which is impractical with a finger alone.
No, but it is inexpensive and refreshingly fair: Procreate is a one-time purchase of around 13 US dollars on the App Store, with no subscription — you pay once and own it, including future updates. That is unusual and welcome compared with the recurring fees of many creative apps. So beyond the iPad itself and the course, the software is a small, single cost.
Yes. The course is built to take you from no experience to confident use of Procreate, covering the interface, brushes, layers, and core digital-illustration techniques step by step. You do not need prior drawing or art background to start, though as with any creative skill, real improvement comes from practising the exercises and drawing regularly rather than only watching the lessons.
The full Procreate toolkit for digital art: navigating the interface, working with brushes and the layer system, colour, selections and masks, and the techniques that turn those tools into finished illustrations. It focuses on both the software mechanics and the drawing process, so you come away able to actually create your own digital artwork rather than just knowing where the buttons are.
The video content is a manageable few hours, but genuinely learning digital illustration takes much longer, since the skill is built through practice, not playback. Treat the runtime as the guided part and expect to spend far more time drawing your own pieces alongside it. People who actually do the exercises and keep sketching get vastly more from it than those who only watch.